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...joke-Hodag Missile Base in Hodag, Ark., is a fictional site where Milton Caniff s comic-strip hero. Colonel Steve Canyon, recently settled a labor dispute. Growled Goldberg sheepishly: "My God, a guy has to read the funny papers to find out what's going on around here." Stale Turkey. Not all of Goldberg's labor problems are so fictional or so funny. Last week Secretary Goldberg, who gets paid $25,000 a year, seemed about the most underpaid and overworked official in Washington. He was involved simultaneously in three major disputes: a strike that stalled construction...
...city. Plot is a diversion. People are so used to wondering who gets the girl that they do not see the girl as girl at all. Themes and symbols are also suspect. Even the intricacies of the human consciousness as explored and exploited by the Freudian novel have gone stale as readers have become sophisticated...
...charter of economic policy. Its heart was an extended attack on what the President called "myths." Said he: "As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truism and stereotype, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality...
Though the elections were fought primarily on local issues, they confirmed the anti-Conservative trend established in eleven national by-elections in the past six months, and gave substance to what Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell called Britain's dissatisfaction with "tired, stale Tory ministers and their outdated postures." Moreover, Labor candidates made some of their most significant gains in the marginal constituencies that are essential for victory in a general election. Most analysts agreed that if a national election were held this month, Labor would win by a comfortable margin. Exulted Labor's Deputy Leader George Brown...
Another capable singing actor is Peter Gesell, playing the lead role as Hampton Hurl. Unhappily, he has to carry the burden of much of the dialogue, and his part suffers for it. In the second act, though, he breaks loose from the stale and the hackneyed, and the result is pleasing in at least two songs, "Think Right" and "My Friend...